![]() Also in England, similar wheels supposedly appeared and subsequently elsewhere around the world, including India, Romania, and Siberia. Also Pietro Della Valle, a Roman traveller who sent letters from Constantinople, Persia, and India, attended a Ramadan festival in Constantinople during 1615 and described among fireworks, floats, and great swings also a “Great Wheel”. It is believed that during the 17th century, so called “Pleasure Wheels” whose passengers rode in chairs suspended from large wooden rings turned by strong men, may have originated in Bulgaria. Osborn (1857-1922) from Michigan, led the construction of the Cantilever Highway Bridge in Cincinnati across the Ohio River. His former fellow student Gustave Kaufman (1859-1913) from Pennsylvania, along with Frank C. He also founded Ferris, Kaufman and Company in 1890. Together with his former student colleague James C. For health reasons, he moved to the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company of Louisville in 1885 to inspect steel acquired in Pittsburgh. He gained a reputation as an expert for large steel constructions and for his concrete work in compressed air chambers. In 1882, he joined the Queen City Mining Company in West Virginia and, after its closure the following year, the Louisville Bridge & Iron Company in Louisville, Kentucky. He began his career in a New York railroad design office under General James H. After graduating (1876), he moved to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he graduated as a civil engineer in February 1881. Here George helped his father on the farm until 1873 when he moved to the California Military Academy in Oakland. When his family wanted to move to California in 1864, civil war and inflation caused money to run out on the road and they settled in Carson City, Nevada. His grandfather Silvanus Ferris and Reverend George W. George Ferris was born in Carson City, Nevada, USA. His parents were George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, created to rival the Eiffel Tower. On November 22, 1898, American engineer George Ferrispassed away. ![]()
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